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<TITLE>OSL and SAA Home Page</TITLE>
<H1> Object Systems Laboratory  and <BR>   
Systems for Advanced Architectures 
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The Systems for Advanced Architecture and the Object Systems Laboratories are
part of the <!WA0><a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/">Computer Science Department</a>
at the <!WA1><a href="http://www.umass.edu/">University of Massachusetts,
Amherst</a>.  The principal  investigators are:

<UL>
<LI> <!WA2><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mckinley/home.html">Kathryn McKinley </A>
<LI> <!WA3><A HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~moss">Eliot
Moss. </A>
</UL>

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<H2> <!WA4><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html">Papers</a> </H2>
Our primary research areas are:
<UL>
<LI> <!WA5><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#carch"> Compiler architectures </a>
<LI> <!WA6><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#copt"> Compiler optimizations </a> (in particular for enhancing parallelism and memory system performance)
<LI> <!WA7><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#mm"> Memory management </a> (both compiler and runtime issues)
<LI> <!WA8><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#msp"> Memory system performance </a>
<LI> <!WA9><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#ppl"> Persistent programming languages--design and implementation </a>
<LI> <!WA10><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#pos"> Persistent object stores </a>
<LI> <!WA11><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#ir"> Information retrieval </a>
<LI> <!WA12><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#tm"> Transactional memory </a>
</UL>


<H2> Research Projects </H2>

<UL>
<LI> <!WA13><A HREF="http://saa-www.cs.umass.edu/~scale">Scale </A>
<LI> Mneme
<LI> Optimizing object-oriented languages
<LI> Garbage collection
<LI> Analytical models for object allocation and deallocation behavior
<LI> Loop optimizations
<LI> Distributed support for information retrieval
</UL>

<H2> Graduate Students </H2>
<UL>
<LI> <!WA14><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~cahoon">Brendan Cahoon </A>
<LI> <!WA15><A HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~cavazos">John Cavazos </A>
<LI> <!WA16><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~jdoyle">Jim Doyle </A>
<LI> <!WA17><A HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~havlicek">Jim Havlicek </A>
<LI> <!WA18><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~jung/">Karsten Jung </A>
<LI> <!WA19><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~singhai">Sharad Singhai </A>
<LI> <!WA20><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~stefanov">Darko Stefanovic </A>
<LI> <!WA21><A HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~stein">Cindy Stein </A>
<LI> <!WA22><A HREF="http://spa-www.cs.umass.edu/~weaver">Glen Weaver </A>
<LI> <!WA23><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~wright">Eric Wright </A>
</UL>

<H2> Recent Graduates </H2>
<UL>
<LI> <!WA24><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~brown/home.html">Eric Brown </A>
<LI> <!WA25><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~diwan/home.html">Amer Diwan </A>
<LI> <!WA26><A HREF="http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/hosking">Tony Hosking </A> 
</UL>

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<H2> Memoranda  </H2>  
The <!WA27><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/memoranda.html"> OSL and SAA
memoranda </a> are a collection of reports describing work in progress.


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<H2> This page is frequently updated. Please visit again! </H2>

<I> Maintained by <!WA28><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~singhai">Sharad Singhai.<br>
 <!WA29><a href="mailto:singhai@cs.umass.edu">singhai@cs.umass.edu</a>
</A>  Last updated Nov. 8, 1996</I>
